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==Executive Summary==
==Executive Summary==
The project “Engaging citizens to reinvent democracy" was born as an initiative of Future Worlds Center.  The one-day workshop is organized as an interactive co-laboratory, fully utilizing up-to-date methodologies and technologies of the science of structured democratic dialogue. The aim of this co-laboratory is to bring together Cypriots of different age groups in an attempt to envision, conceptualize and design new models of democratic governance. The structured democratic dialogue methodology is a highly effective methodology that is employed for conflict resolution and which ensures that a variety of stakeholders represents the problem system of concern and that all stakeholders’ opinions are equally represented in the dialogic process. This project falls under the activities of the Cyprus Presidency. The workshop was facilitated by Dr. [[Yiannis Laouris]],[[Zoe Apostolidou]] and [[Eleni Michail]].
This paper reports the results of the first of a series of workshops organized by Future Worlds Center under the auspices of the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU. The dialogue was implemented in the context of the “Engaging citizens to reinvent democracy" project. The project was born as an initiative of Future Worlds Center.  The one-day workshop is organized as an interactive co-laboratory, fully utilizing up-to-date methodologies and technologies of the science of structured democratic dialogue. The aim of this co-laboratory is to bring together Cypriots of different age groups in an attempt to envision, conceptualize and design new models of democratic governance. The structured democratic dialogue methodology is a highly effective methodology that is employed for conflict resolution and which ensures that a variety of stakeholders represents the problem system of concern and that all stakeholders’ opinions are equally represented in the dialogic process. The workshop was facilitated by Dr. [[Yiannis Laouris]],[[Zoe Apostolidou]] and [[Eleni Michail]].
 
This Co-Laboratoty was organized using the Structured Democratic Dialogue Process (SDDP) approach within the context of a rich web-based communication environment. It is categorized as one of many organised under the running title [[Reinventing democracy]].
 
 




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